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PADUCAH KY WEDNESDAY EVENING APRIL 18 190G
TERRIBLE VISITATION AT FRISCO
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San Francisco Suffers Great Loss of Life J
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Tile Shock Seemed to Literally
Sweep the Supports Out
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Fire Followed in its Wake Water Mains Burst
Dynamite Used to Destroy Handsome
Buildings in Elements Path
Area t Covers Fifty Blocks Right in the Heart of the Best
Business Part of the City = = Resident Portion
L is Not Touched
t THE LOSS OF LIFE IS TERRIBLE AND IS PLACED AT 2000
San Francisco April IHA second
shock followed the first shock of the I
disastrous earthquake of this IIIlIrll1
log three hours later mind toppled
over moxt of the building that were
td left standing from the first shock
Fire 1 Chief Sullivan and Patrolman
Frontier wen killed heneath the
ruinsThieves
Thieves are already at work
ghoiillshlyIkrkely
Ikrkely n fine suburb just across
the hay suffered a severe shock It
Is I tho residence district of a nuinlMr
of the wealthiest millionaires I
i The whole city 1 Is a mass of fiN
t and llaines and Us total destruction
j seems Inevitable and nothing hilt
Jrovldenco can save It
nit whole district on CMiirkel
street t Itctwocit Third and Tenth Is In
hunts Preparations ate now Ixlnjj
made to blow up a number of hhlKI I
structures tit try to slop the spread
of the tin and IIIIIOIIK theso are the
< Palace Hotel one of the finest In the
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world and the olllce of the Sun Fran
cisco Call
The loss of life Is now put at 200 < l
hut there Is I no telling when it will
run when all accounts lire In
Tho disaster Is I growing worse In
stead of letter l as tho developments
occurSeven
Seven hundred bodies have already
been brought out of the ruins The
street car system Is tied up the rum
tire t machinery and power houses aro
ttt mined I
minedThe
The loss to property Is placed at
thirty million dollars hut may go
way above this
The shipping Is being l rushed to the t I
llll to avoid the fire and all efforts
to save property nn being iiindej
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Tho excitement nnd confusion is
l Intense and the people arc In a gnat
r measure panic + stricken
Not a building In tho rlty has es
cnHMl damage which shows tho so
self
t1xploxbtn after explosion caused
by the dynamite used III razing the
buildings In the path of tho lire In a
feehlo effort to placate the flames +
horrible4i
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scene already beyond description
The night Is waited with Intense
expectation time water supply Is I
gone the electric supply power house
wrecked 1 mho gas company plant ruin
r ed and robbery rampant
The government inns I been appealed
o and i Nttldlcrtt haw been rushed
from the Presidio to take charge of
nfTalrn and the probabilities ate that
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Biartlal law wU Iw declared
I Offer of MMtotjuico poor In from
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the country at large nod the people
are nllvo to the pressing needs for as
sistance
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TllltKI SHOCKS FELT
Then wen thno shocks of the
e + the first one being of
two minutes duration
Viilencla street sank 10 feet III
places with great dmiuigo near the
China Hiisln It Is I thought scores
perished In tho ruins
ENTIKE 1 CITY DOOMED
San Francisco April Ut1111 lat
est reports add to the horrors and
damages of the t situation
The debris of the wrecks are all
ignited and the city Is doomed to de
struction The fin engines were
wnckod In the wnck of time lire sta
Dons and the town is i at flames mer
ciesThe
The manufactories which with
stood the shocks fell easy victims to
the flames
IIn Tho employes of the factories lived
In voltages which wero tossed about
like cards and the falling timbers
crushed the occupants while they lay
sleeping
Tho dead Is I estimated above 200O
most t of tho b bodies recovered wen Ina
ken from tho tenement districts
Over UlO > IXHlloH now lie In the I
Mechanics pavilion
Tho Call building Is now n mess
of flames and doomed
Tho Hearst building l Is In great
danger +
dangerThe
The lire Is now working west froth
Sansoino street toward corner Mar
Let and Montgomery
Destruction of Palace hotel Inevi
tableFrom
From tho Examiner building on
Thlnl tIt no building escaped the
greedy flames
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THE LATEST
Ill Mission street hundreds of dead
were found in tho ruins of cheap lodg
hug houses Every mini IIhlo to work
Is being forced by iwlleo to aid time
dying and rescue Inn Injured pinned
under debris
I Every inliuito rtitorts received
which rnlso the estimate dead The
I reports nro so enormous officials
shudder Entire dome of tutu city
hall collapsed at 010 with terrific
crash doing great Oamago to the
walls and also cracked and damaged
them irreparable
Tho roof of the Majestic theatre
fell In mining theatre
Studebaker block mass of ruins
Damage In JHsslon district appalling
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and widespread
Four entire blocks on Market St
flue now burning fiercely spreading
up mid down street Hunter house
First Methodist church block south
of Palace Hotel Is burning nnd will
ho n total loss Ground below Kent
ry street wink about four feet In
Valencia street ground sunk nearly
10 feet In places Similar conditions
exists In Chinese sections
l Damage In Ilerkley Oakland and
other places In the vicinity of San
Francicso was very severe but It Is
not thought many lives wen lost on
that side of the bay The supply of
dynamite Is exhausted and the mayor
telephoned Oakland for more ex
plosives If the flames cannot be
stayed at once the entire city may be
destroyed
destroyedGeneral
General Winston commanding time
department of time Pacific has order
ed 1 out the entire forces at the Presl
do Fort Mason to gnarl the prop
city and preserve order Howard
street and Mission above Third is
blazing furiously I ICyalto one of tbb
finest steel structures In tho city
burned The very lest section of the
hiislnoH district is now threatened
Firemen are powerless The
whole terri hry four blocks OB San
some Front IMno Sacramento streets
are gutted
The Postal Telegraph building Is I
deserted In fear of a collapse and nil
operators have gone to Oakland to
resume work there
Tho Sun expects iater news than
what Is printed new that wires arc
In some order and If other Intelli
gence Is received It will be i bulletined l
at tho ofllce All friends net Invited
to call and read whatever Is I received
Reject tho lYoposition
Charleston AY Aa April 18ln
accordance with Instruction I received
from headquarters of tho United
Mine Workers representatives of the
miners scale committee last night
rejected the proposition of tho opera
tors of Kanawha valley to pay three
per cent advance on tho present
scale instead of G50 as asked by the
miners
St Petersburg April lSTho As
sociated Press la i now In n position to
confirm tho report that Wltto has
definitely got the upper hand of Mlm
Istor of Interior DumnrX The down
fall of tho latter la only a few days
or weeks at most as Emperor Nich
omit has promised to dismiss him I I be
fore the national parliament meets
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THE NEWS OF THE
DISASTER HERE
The Sun Scores a Heat With
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KB News at Noon
The Office Eagerly Jlesleged With
Messages All Day From Inter
ested Folk
MANY PADUCAHANS OUT THEKE
The Sun posted tho first Informa
tlon given tho public of tho great
disaster at San Francisco This was
done on bulletin boards both In front
of this office and also In front of the
Citizens Savings bank and McPher
sons The Information was read by
many anal soon the horrifying fact
had well spread over the city Soon
tho phones at the office wero con
stantly rlnBlns ifcndv Inquiries for
further facts came from all parts of
the city and even from some outside
points At 1230 Tho Sun further
excelled by putting an extra upon
the streets In which a rather full ac
count of the horror was printed all
tho conditions particularly the ab
sence of telegraphic lines being tak
en Into consideration This extra
way grabbed un by the excited pub
lic like hot cakes by a gang of
tramps and many compliments were
paid the paper because of this grat
uitous stroke of enterprise Though
It was thought the people had well
heard of the disaster the extra was
the first Intimation many had of Its
occurrenceThere
There are a great number of Pa
ducah people in San Francisco ibut
as tho damage seems to havo been
most In tho business districts It la
not thought any of them suffered nri
accident Secretary Coons of the
Conunercli club Miss Mix of the
Commercial club and Dr DIy the
have relatives out there J B Alvey
and family are residing there Mr
D II Scott and family have just re
turned from a visit to California and
wero In Frisco a few days ago
TIm SAN FKANCISCO LOSS TOTAL
Insurance Policies Dont Generally If
Ever Cover Such Disasters
The total loss of the disaster In
Sail Francisco is estimated At 30
000000 This will prove almost If
not a lotal loss as insurance Is not
paid on such disasters or fire result
ant unless Insurance policies so
state The Baltimore fire loss was
40000000 but the people recover
ed on this loss largely through their
Insurance
Illinois Prohibitionists Meet
Springfield III April ISThe
prohibitionists of Illinois opened
their state convention today with a
thousand delegates present The
morning was devoted to county leg
islative conferences A ticket will
be nominated by secret ballot under
tho Australian system
Declines tho Appointment
Washington April ISEdmund
J James president of the University
of Illinois has declined on account of
111 health the appointment as dele
gate to the PanAmerican conference
at Ro Janeiro in July
Ilactng Association Organized
Frankfort < tprll ISTho state
racing commission was Organized to
day with Jack Chlnn as chairman
and A D Rouse of Covington as
secretary nt 100 per month Lex
ington was made the headquarters
Ia pa4nMUb Had McCradwa
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County sere people red TM
Boa Una ttsit etlieg paper
10 CENTS PER WEEK
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The Stricken City Suffers Aritffli
er Terrible Shock Three A
I Hours Later Todayi U
The Whole City is a Mass of Flames and Seem
ingly Doomed to Complete Destruction
Damage to Suburb Near Town
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Not a Building in the City Escaped the Damage = Seven
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Hundred Bodies Have Been Recovered So +
Far = Rescuers Bravely Working
PROPERTY DAMAGE IS ESTIMATED AT OVER 30000 000
The First Hiport
St Louis April ISA ter
rifle earthquake which seemed liter
ally to sweep the supports from be
neath city cracking Walls and send
ing weaker buildings toppling to the
streets burying their occupants and
In burning debris rocked San Fran
cisco at C13 oclock this morning
Perhaps thousands of people arc be
lieved to bo dead as a result of the
earthquake From the ruins of the
fallen buildings rescuing parties are
bringing out the dead and wounded
Tho water supply was cut oft nnd
the city left without lights Through
the darkened streets tho survivors
grouped their way over masses of
debris answering the calls for aid as
they could The catastrophe came
without warning nnd the survivors In
the stricken Districts dazed with
with horrorcould do little effective
rescue work All wires went down
with the first shock and the city was
left without means to appeal for help
Tho Post Dispatch received the fol
lowing bulletin from tho night chief
of > the the Postal at San Francisco
shortly after the earthquake Va
had terrible earthquake at Gll
There Is an Immense amount of dam
age done In the city OflJco about
wrecked our power Is gone Non
of us are hurt but they are carting
tho dead out of fallen buildings Fir
is over the town and no water I am
going to get out of the office as wo
havo an earthquake shock every few
minutes AH telegraphic communi
cation with San Francisco ceased at
C a m
Another Report
San Francisco April 1SThl
worst earthquake In the history of
the Pacific coast occurred this morn
ing Many buildings In the business
district were wrecked A fiN follow
ed the shock and as water mains
were bursted 1t Is Impossible to get
water The firemen aro helpless
1 Many were killed and Injured An
early estimate of limo dead placed tht
number as high as 1100 Tho wires
arc down In every direction and I
la Impossible to send any particulars
at present The Ore broke out in the
wholesale houses near time wato
front In other localities the shock
was felt as far south ns Santa Bar
bara Thjpro were three shocks
first and second light and tho third
very severe Survivors who are not
heroically caring for the injured ore
fleeing for their lives Time city la In
n state of Indescribable panic and
confusion Scores of dead bodies are
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being taken from tho buildings
The California state building and
the handsome Palace hotel havo been
blown up to try to stay the fires
sweepLATIMtTime
LAT ItThe loss of life Is now
placed at over 1 000
Felt nt AVnslilngton
Washington April 18Tho war
department was in communication
with San Francisco about two min
utes this morning shortly after tho
earthquake Tho San Francisco op
erator stated the destruction wan
great Ho reported more than ona
thousand persons killed Tho dead
and Injured are being taken out of
the wrecked buildings Tho water
supply Is cut off and there is danger
of a general conflagration
Washington April ISThe
weather bureau reports a number of
slight earthquakes about Washing
ton this morning
Itepnrt Aln Aslifonl Ariz
Ashford Ariz April ISRe
ports of tho earthquake ahock San
Francisco received here say time first
rumble was heard at CliO oclock
Time bufldlngs toppled nnd fell In l ov
er direction The police patrol Is
carting off tho bodies taken from the
wrecked building
I LATEI IXFOIWLYTION
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Tim Path of the Quake
San Francisco April 18 Tho
area covered by the earthquake Is
about CO blocks In which almost all
ot the buildings are totally destroy
ed The greatest damage is east on
South Market street to the Day This
area covers the Battery FrontDrum
mond and Montgomery streets
Tho buildings on the following
streets are destroyed
First Fremont Deal Main Spear
Stuart East and South
Thin section of the city Is largely
devoted to manufactories and the
loss will be tremendous
tremendousTho
Tho Hotels
Tho Palace hotel which cost 3S
250000 was blown up to try to
stop the flames This Is one of the
finest hotels In the world The Lick
house Is also wrecked and the other
hotels arc badly damaged
Fires Everywhere
The Brea are raging everywhere
and the city looks as 1C It is at the
mercy of tho flames Tho area cov
ered by the loss will anyway con
sume the heart of the very best part
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of tho city
Tho City Hall > > +
Tho city hall was oneof the hand
sourest buildings In the west ande
i cost six million dollars
No Electric Power or Gas
Tho city electric lighting plant
went down In the wreck and the gas
mains are all broken The city will
bo In darkness until relief is given
some way J + I
No Water
The damage to the water mains
cripples tho water supply for drink
Ing purposes and all uses as n fire
fighter for It have been abandoned
Telegraph Service
The Postal Western Union and
Pacific States Telephone company
plants are In the wreck and commu
nication Is crippled The companies
above all sent out notices that mes
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sages aro necessarily delaredI I y
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The Suns Obligation
The Sun Is Indebted to the Padu
cah Commission company for ir good
deal of its news from San Francisco
today and acknowledges t itt debt
With its wires direct to Now York
Chicago and St Louis this company
has excellent facilities for getting
tho wire news This service supple
menting The ScrlppsaicRay tele
graph service gave The gun a good
account of the disaster
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Felt Here
Theer ore citizens who contend
that they felt the shock of tho earth
quake this morning which so wreck
ed San Francisco TheyfVaytho shock
was very light and they i think Ihe
one they felt was thotiardest of tho
several mentioned In the dispatches
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Time Wrath of God
To the religious niindsj the terri
ble news from Saii Francjsco will
havo great significance For months
the reports or theevTl conditions la
the city havo occupied the attention
of the press and ministry and it hall
been said ithorjs was more crime anil
corruption going on in tho city than + l
in any In the countryd
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A Double Trngeay
Duluth Minn April 18A trage
dy In WhIch tho result was the mur
der of two brothers by each otherd I
shocked Hlbbln Sunday night near
the Morris 3Ilno locatlonStaye Buck
ovltch hot and killed hk hrothsri
Marco after the latter had laAl sjJ
what Is almost cprtaHtfl H a > K
knife wound on him Steve IiiI Ij
hospital bulls not expectgd 1
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